Ranking the Weirdest Things at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

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The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition put Chicago on the map as a city of arts and extravagance, but in true Victorian fashion it was also filled with a ton of VERY strange attractions and events. Come learn with me about the World's Fair and rank it's odd offerings.
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Sources
The Great American Fair by Reid Badger
Chicago By Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker’s Guide to the Paris of America
The World’s Columbian Exposition by Norman Bolotin and Christine Laing
Florida and the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 by Stephen Kerber
A History of the World’s Columbian Exposition Held in Chicago in 1893; by Authority of the Board of Directors by Rossiter Johnson
Remembering the Chicago World's Fair by Russell Lewis
The Century World's fair book for boys and girls; being the adventures of Harry and Philip with their tutor, Mr. Douglass, at the World's Columbian exposition by Tudor Jenks
The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair: Their Observations and Triumphs by Charles M Stevens
“Types of Humanity: Some of the Odd People to be Seen at the Fair.” The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois • Sun, Mar 12, 1893, Page 13
“In the White City: Gloom Strides Where Glory Once Vaunted Achievements.” The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois • Mon, Nov 20, 1893, Page 7
“The First Ferris Wheel Still Exists (Mostly),” by Orangebean Indiana orangebeanindi...
Ferris Wheels: An Illustrated History By Norman D. Anderson
Colorado, Racism, and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair by Laura Ruttum Senturia for the Denver Public Library history.denver...
worldsfairchicsgo1893.com
The O'Leary Legend By greatchicagofire.org greatchicagofi...
“Madman In Mid-Air,” by The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, September 24, 1893

[@nerdyrevelries422]

Kaz being like, "The Victorians loved to make things out of things they shouldn't be made out of" like we didn't have a whole TV show about trying to figure out whether or not something is made of cake.

[@Ceruleansquid-lo3iv]

You have two wolves inside you, except one is a Victorian.

[@kamilahmaudsley964]

​@@Ceruleansquid-lo3iv And the other is cake

[@MatecaCorp]

@@kamilahmaudsley964 …or is it?

[@sarahwatts7152]

@@MatecaCorp Nah, I'm pretty sure it's an actual tower of sketchily preserved oranges

[@SherlocksLeftNipple]

At least cake is edible, non-toxic, non-flammable, and not radioactive. 😂

[@space_the_final_fronteir]

Glad to see that even in the 1890s, workers were getting infuriated by the playing of the same song over and over. Having just escaped the retail hellhole of Mariah Carey Christmas, it comforts me to know that people 130 years ago felt exactly the same.

[@michelleb7399]

lol, back in the 90’s I worked at a mall. I loved helping people purchase Christmas gifts and enjoyed the Christmas track music… except when business was slow. I probably wouldn’t have had such bloody ears had it not been track music. Knowing exactly which song was coming after the next while working in a windowless space was almost like being in some straightjacketed room. Time moved so slowly during those moments.

[@AnnieTyme]

Its unfortunate that the over abundance of racebaiting social justice rhetoric that u have smothered your otherwise interesting and throughly well researched piece,that u excellent paying special detail on exbibits, inventions and souveniors I especially loved your attempts to include fun authentic verbage that sprinkled throughout your vlogumentary. ( i bless you with this word ) while I appreciate your disgust with the treatment of underrepresented aMericans recieved during the fair you are judging a social culture with the culture of more than 100 years i to the future. It takes away from you impeccable work. Please dont take personally this is constructive critism I value your work and am impress with your caRing heart. The tree most likely btw was fallen perished tree. Also while your clearly announced opinion of the fair being extremely racist which waS not at all. Again, society historically evovles which iz normal, and despite the indoctrinTion you have been fed it was progressive aT the time. I also loved your garb you wore AS well as your guest .you would not be accepted into polite society with out being dressed being more like your friend also.seem weird thT you seem upset by people calling city evil but your own measurement it was rAcist isnt that evil? Just things to conside r Inhave subscribed and donated i your chNnel name. Impressed just offering ways to improve easily done just thoughtz truly enjoyed for the most part. Will shRe

[@JulianaBlewett]

Pariah Scary needs to go.

[@FabricofTime]

I worked at Starbucks when one of Paul McCartney's solo albums came out (idk which one; it had a pink cover if I remember correctly) and had a promo partnership with Starbucks. They played that album ALL DAY. I think I heard the whole album at least ten times. I did not buy the album.

[@ronaldmurphy2419]

you didnt work retail enough. the music is not noticeable when you are focused on the job. grow up kid

[@oomflem]

As someone who just suffered through working christmas in retail, it is FASCINATING to learn that "being tortured by the one song played endlessly at your crappy retail job" predates the invention of recorded music.

[@crowfaerymori]

😂 that feeling when your pulse still rises at Christmas music 😂

[@AM711]

"I don't want a lot for xmas" 😆

[@pastpatour]

I worked Christmas in toy retail during the Frozen mania 10 years ago or something. It still haunts my nightmares.

[@ToyInsanity]

"After the Ball" has "Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart" vibes

[@oomflem]

No joke, my store speaker system glitched yesterday and played Let It Go six times in a row before someone intervened. In 2024.@@pastpatour

[@howlingwolf7280]

Great video Kaz. I love the idea of Kaz being the judge for if something is allowed at the fair, stood with a clipboard at the entrance “what is your exhibit sir?” “It’s a recreation of the statue of liberty using salt” “is it true to scale sir?” “No it’s made of one single slab of salt, but is only 2/3rds the size” Kaz shouts “Nope, if it isn’t full size, just leave” lol. Love the video, really interesting stuff.

[@anarey-oktay2683]

I saw a statue of Elvis made out of butter at the Texas state fair, once. Some weirdness never dies.

[@ianloeb1672]

@@anarey-oktay2683I can only imagine the cleanup

[@bitchenboutique6953]

@@anarey-oktay2683 The year I went, the Ohio State Fair had next to the butter cow a butter Lewis and Clark. I never felt so alive. 😂

[@ToyInsanity]

The Statue of Liberty made of salt was 12 feet tall. So 1/25th scale. Also Bartholdi was at the 1892 world's fair selling other statues.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

I like that Chicago lists key events of its city's history like the world's expo and the great fire on its flag through the stars and how each point individually stand for a value from those events. It does make a lot of sense that the Florida pavilion had the best orange cider, it is Florida after all! Nikola Tesla had stuff at the fair too! Part of the space occupied by the Westinghouse Company was devoted to demonstrations of electrical devices developed by Tesla including induction motors and the generators used to power the system. The rotating magnetic field that drove these motors was explained through a series of demonstrations including an Egg of Columbus that used the two-phase coil in the induction motors to spin a copper egg making it stand on end. The Egg of Columbus refers to an apocryphal story, dating from at least the 16th century, in which it is said that Christopher Columbus, having been told that finding a new trade route was inevitable and no great accomplishment, challenges his critics to make an egg stand on its tip. After his challengers give up, Columbus does it himself by tapping the egg on the table to flatten its tip. Tesla himself showed up to Chicago for a week in August to attend the International Electrical Congress, being held at the fair's Agriculture Hall, and put on a series of demonstrations of his wireless lighting system in a specially set up darkened room at the Westinghouse exhibit. These included demonstrations he had previously performed throughout the US and Europe, including using a nearby coil to light a wireless gas-discharge lamp held in his hand

[@averlost6477]

can't wait for the hh Holmes video, I'm obsessed with the story and I love how you narrate and the "set" of your videos, I'm sure I'll love it when it comes out❤

[@EricBrado]

I just found ur channel,1st video I’ve seen you cover a lot of super interesting cool things & you clearly do really solid research amazing content

[@zeeb.1763]

"A city is a city is a city" THIS!! I find this especially striking living in an old city neighborhood in Detroit. I hear so much inflammatory rhetoric surrounding the city, but its always the same people complaining about its problems that perpetuate them. Legacy Cities like Chicago, Detroit & St. Louis and so many others deserve our respect and I'm glad to hear someone defend them!

[@Kumanosuke]

True within certain areas, but not globally. Chicago or Los Angeles are a thousand times more dangerous than London, Berlin, Rome, Munich or Tokyo. It's not "All big cities are dangerous" but "All American cities are dangerous".

[@GiantPetRat]

Kaz doing the food blogger imitation at 24:13 had me rolling. SPOT. ON.

[@Cobbmtngirl]

Another awesome informative learning experience, Kaz! Ty! Please do another on the world fair that happened near San Francisco. For the 1939 fair they built an entire island on the San Francisco Bay that still exists today-Treasure island.

[@brendatrickler9016]

Many thanks for another great video. By the way, the Canadian TV series Murdoch Mysteries made excellent use of the song "After the Ball," tied to a recurring villain named James Gillies. IIRC, the episodes are in season 2 (Big Murderer on Campus) and 10 (The Devil Inside), though there's more Gillies-related drama in between. That's where I first heard the song, and I love the show, so that might be why I like the song--first impressions and all that.

[@gr33ngirlsea]

Isn't Murdoch Mysteries so fun? I'll bet being on their research team (for props and writing) is super interesting.

[@Jellyfish146]

"Hurry dear, bring your orange cider, the torture exhibit is going to close soon!"

[@jillianmaryxo]

can't help but think the evil orange cider was the 1880s version of malort that you would make your friends from out of town drink on a dare 🤣

[@isaacthedruid]

the mammoth cheese was actually made by my town in Ontario, Canada! i got jumpscared when i saw the picture of it because i drive by the metal case for the cheese all the time!

[@kibblemom]

Great video, as always! One of my favorite books, The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz, features a time traveler visiting the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. I highly recommend it! Another fun fact about the fair: the song "Streets of Cairo/Snake Charmer Song/There's a place on Mars" was composed and introduced there. It also features in the above book.

[@SanFranFan30]

you should research the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair, it's absoluttely buck wild in a similar way that the 1893 one was. I took an entire semester long course in college on the fair as I went to school in St. Louis and there is some really really dark stuff that went on like human zoos, eugenics stuff and the like. The other thing that made this event even more chaotic was that the city of St. Louis strong armed the city of Chicago into giving away the Summer Olympics so there was also the 1904 Olympics happening at the same time in essentially the same place.

[@yellobb3848]

It would be amazing if you did one on the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair! I moved to St. Louis a year ago and I’m fascinated by it. Or you could do a video about 1904 St. Louis on it’s own honestly, because they also had the first US iteration of the Olympic Games at the same time as the World’s Fair, and that was wild as well

[@bricksloth6920]

Yay, I like learning more about the 1893 World's Fair. Also, since we accepted the cat from the fates, we're apparently now on the fates mailing list because a cattle dog mix appeared on our porch (in the deep country. A quarter of a mile to the nearest neighbor as the crow flies. Most roads around here are gravel.) So we have a new dog. Yay us

[@Mark-bm5nk]

Your love of history is nothing short of inspiring. Subbed

[@TamaraLynnchambers]

I didn’t know you were in Chicago that’s awesome. I LOVE My Block My Hood My City. Amazing video.

[@mollierose9833]

your videos make my brain buzz, i get to watch your amazing videos and be entertained while also learning about things i never would’ve otherwise. i love you and your videos so much 🥰

[@starlightriri]

the hero and savior of the people is back 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 great video as usual kaz!!

[@jack2breeze]

That After The Ball song story reminds me of another true story of a newlywed couple who move into their new home on an island and the wife played a piano but only had one piece of music. Anyhow he took his axe and well, I believe you can guess how it ends.

[@unabashedlybashful]

As a UChicago alum, I remain fascinated by the Chicago World's Fair and the phenomenon of World's Fairs in general. So much of that event took place on what is now part of UChicago's campus. Also of interest is the reintroduction of the Olympics-if you haven't already, check out the chaotic 1904 St. Louis Olympics, especially the marathon event, which coincided with the St. Louis World's Fair (and also involved the beautiful campus of a prestigious institution-Washington University in St. Louis.)

[@biz_bee]

This is a good video to watch on such a cold night. Kaz is so charming along with the informational content.

[@noodles2459]

30:09 How is "After the Ball" not in the public domain.

[@helenapupkess3192]

Fun Fact: Hagenbecks Tierpark is one of the oldest zoos in Germany and it still exists near Hamburg. They were infamous for displaying people from Africa and Asia and native Americans as part of their exhibition, the socalled Völkerschauen, that were unfortunately very popular in Germany around 1900.

[@melowlw8638]

october 8th is my birthday and coincidentally, thats the second sad thing that i now know of, which happened on this day!! also happy new year!! this is comforting before i do my final exam 🤞🏼🤞🏼

[@CJTheReal]

I would honestly adore if you did a piece on Expo 88, Brisbane Australia

[@joeyhemlock]

Look at that beautiful bottle of Few bourbon from my hometown of Evanston!

[@Ridcully9]

When i was a kid, we would sometimes have beef tea, called Bovril, in the UK. It's still available.

[@Mossfaerie]

IS THAT TUTTER IN THE BACKGROUND? Magnificent.

[@cassandramiller4477]

If you ever do cover the Century of Progress era, you could probably get a whole video out of Sally Rand!

[@Lasciatemi_Guidare]

For those visiting Chicago at Christmastime, the city’s Joffrey Ballet has an excellent version of the Nutcracker set at the World’s Fair. Also recommend getting a brownie at the Palmer House Hotel, where this treat was invented for the Fair.

[@trishial8212]

Well great, there goes my weekend plans of drinking nefarious, barely citrus flavoured concoctions from a victorian beverage vendor at the world fair....

[@seekerowl3260]

Just found your channel randomly, and as a Chicagoan (born and raised) I wish I knew about it sooner. Good stuff!

[@ferbsman]

this is my new favorite video from you! I am very intrigued by the victorians lol

[@Bride-MarieBaker]

Hi Kaz, the Danish Viking Museum builds a historically accurate viking boat almost every year and sails it to for example iceland. The boat in the image is great! Very accurate.

[@divinedelaware7541]

I'm just liking the old timey set up. Outfit, scenery, and what's FEW? God Bless for caring about the kids in the Raq too

[@MentalIgglybuff]

I was super curious about the world's fair a few days ago (specifically this one) and was searching for a video about it but couldn't find any good ones. Low and behold, this appears! Thanks for the video :)

[@christiegrant408]

25:57 this is so funny to me, I live in England and my dad drinks bovril and that’s basically beef tea, I’ve see others describe it as meaty tea hahah

[@courtneykappel370]

History, a cat and a deep sigh before mentioning Christopher Columbus’ expedition. I’m sold!

[@DetroitMicroSound]

Beef Tea is an early British footballer (Soccer player) drink. I have a Columbian Exposition half dollar In MS63+.

[@arthur622]

the sniffing of the evil orange cider gave the same vibes as the testing of claude monets confusing leaking green cake

[@leahspencer6884]

Please do the St. Louis World's Fair! The Missouri History Museum is in the process of updating their exhibit, so it could be a really interesting visit for you.

[@ladyredl3210]

I’m preparing to give my first tour in my own city, I work as a living historian and mine also burned down in 1852. They just rebuilt it. Humans are nuts.

[@calebleland8390]

I was going to insert some sort of joke about "staying at that castle I'd heard about when I went to the fair", but I'll be content to wait for you to do a video on Holmes (I've always been a morbid person, and have more knowledge about serial killers than anyone probably should have). That being said, is there any other context to "fetuses being found"? Not wanting to make light of such a topic, I'm legitimately curious as to the hows and whys. I feel like there are some horrifying stories that go along with such findings, and I fear that the women involved were erased from history without telling their stories. Another amazing video, Kaz! I'll steer clear of the orange cider and try to find the Orange Julius instead.

[@grapeshot]

Yeah and we do know about a certain castle that was in Chicago at that time. And what horrible 1980s style slasher BS that was going on in that castle.

[@tortellinifettuccine]

Watched this on the blue line, The guy next to me was reading a book about the fair too lmao, what a day.

[@marydohrenwend7612]

Loved this! Thanks for all that work! By the way... you know about H. H. Holmes, right? He was a serial killer who built a house of horrors near the Chicago Fair you talk about here. His victims were mostly from visitors to the fair who rented rooms in his hotel. The construction story is pretty interesting as it's own side show to the fair. Awful, but interesting!

[@chrisjuliette]

i live in san diego and a rich woman named kate sessions owned a lot of land near what they had just established as downtownshe allowed the world fair to be held on her land. most structures were built out of cheap materials and were erected pretty fast as san diego wasnt really expecting to host the world fair. the plot of land she owned is what we now know as balboa park and the museums and buildings/towers you see there today are from the world fair. even the way its set up is fair like w a few large plazas and hallways, which makes it great for events like december nights. edit: i feel like i didnt explain it well but basically, what chicago did w the white city (made temporary buildings they were gonna tear down) san diego did with balboa park but unlike chicago only saving one building we saved most of our buildings from the world fair :)

[@janicel.johnson1683]

My great grandmother was a child in Chicago at the time of the fire. The family loaded up in their horse and carriage, drove it into the shallows of Lake Michigan and watched the city burn.

[@kristidrehnig4313]

The stands of orange cider right next to each other with completely different ingredients seems kind of like all the grilled cheese vendors in a Dead show parking lot :)

[@cousinted]

"This Orange Cider is the only way to recoup our terrible losses from "After the Ball". I just don't know what went wrong..." "You played it nonstop for five months." "So mother was right, it was all my fault...Go ahead, water it down some more." "My god, man, I've watered her down as far as she'll go! I cannot water no more!"

[@ulptai8436]

I work at a dispensary that used to be a restaurant and we have a bar from the 1893 Chicago worlds fair

[@WhyIsYoutubeSoTerrible]

1904 St Louis World Fair and contemporaneous Olympic Games in the city is legitimately one of the dumbest public events in American history and would make a good similar video.

[@cl509]

Fantastic Video.....I always wanted to find the stories of the survivors and what they did after

[@storiesandstones]

HH Holmes @ the fair: "Step right up folks! One shiny Nickel! Come see now, live! A real live serial killer! That's right, just one nickel gets you in to take a gander! For two nickels you can throw a banana at him!"

[@grutarg2938]

The man on the Ferris wheel was having a panic attack - it's not that unusual.

[@jevosch]

The song is most definitely in public domain so there should be no issue playing it.

[@tizzat9464]

The horrific orange cider sounds like the 1890s version of the Panera Killer Lemonade 😭

[@mr50sagain55]

Awesome video!...first video I’ve watched on your channel…a compare and contrast weirdest things video on the 1933 Century of Progress World’s Fair would be great!!…1933/1934 was colorful, Art Deco and packed with developments in electric light and power (Westinghouse), transportation (Chrysler & others), tabulating machines (IBM) and early television (Hudson-Essex car company?)!!!

[@strayiggytv]

If i wasnt already subbed i would have purely for the pigeon love❤. Me and my ex feral pigeon named Chicken say hi from texas!

[@thegoosegirl42]

Anyone who liked this video and thought 'wow that sounds wild, it would be a great setting for a fantasy book' should read The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros.

[@chrisjuliette]

29:10- makes me happy to know mailing yourself in boxes was a thing before youtube xD

[@danielleverdant1100]

The Mammoth cheese traveled through our town (Perth Ontario) via railway on its way down south. We have TWO satues of it! One very old one made of concrete where we all used to hang out in highschool. And another newer imposter cheese made of steel. Our tiny town museum even has a piece of the cheese wrapped in saran wrap on display. I was so excited when you mentioned it I just had to dump all of that🧀😅

[@estebancaro2334]

Great video on the 1893 Chicago world's fair. I love the work you put into reading the only available article about the incident at the Ferris wheel. Real captivating story. Side note: and sadly no mention of Victor Timely and his Temporal Loom. 😂

[@GarageBandKing012]

If you wanted to put yourself through the trauma of beef tea, in the UK we have Bovril which was probably close to what they made. It smells and tastes like burning tires though.

[@EmpressoftheLoneIslands]

Yes, please do all of the world’s fairs.

[@Notapizzathief]

Oh my goodness the mental image of the guy knowing he had the habit of trying to throw himself from heights and then deciding to go on the ferris wheel and having to go around twice is just so funny to me

[@phranerphamily]

Seattle did one in 1902 which is where many of the buildings for the University of Washington came into beingand of course the 1962 which is iconic for the Space Needle so those would be awesome for you to do

[@quantumleaper]

Talking about ostrich farms there is one near Janesville, at least Google says that is where it is located. I thought it was outside of Beloit.

[@weetyskemian44]

I loved the story about the ferris wheel. I feel that many a wild man could be rendered as calm as an ostrich that way.

[@haileybalmer9722]

I don't know how much information there is on it, but I'm fascinated by all of the little scraps I see of the 1905 Portland Lewis and Clark Exposition. It's a lot like this, in that nothing from the exposition seems to be left, and it's so strange to thing something that big and that luxurious was ever there. I'd love to see something about that. Or that restaurant inside that sequoia. It looks like Chicago was not its final destination, there seem to be pictures of it in Washington DC.

[@stuffedninja1337]

Yaaaay, fellow art student ETA: If you do another World’s Fair episode, I vote the St. Louis one (1904?), since despite being the bigger event, it’s kinda overshadowed by the horrendous Olympics that happened around the same time. :0

[@thurayya8905]

This was so fun! I loved every minute of it and wouldn't it be fun if we all went? Of course, being a former belly dancer, I was acquainted with the Midway Plaisance and Little Egypt (who wasn't little or Egyptian), but didn't know much about the rest of the fair. You could do a whole video just about it burning down. Thank you for finding and reading the newspaper reports.

[@ahniyabutler4225]

I always get a little jolt of excitement when you name Chicago things as a resident lol

[@KaChowAndTheGang]

Hey, thanks for all this inspiration. I’m gonna be using it for one of my games. Have a good day.

[@Yor_Sothoth]

fun video, would love to see more like this, but the biggest hell yeah goes to the pet pigeon

[@goofydess]

The atmosphere of the video game Bioshock Infinite seems to be based on this world's fair.

[@pumpkinpatch5]

Similar to the Crystal Palace. I'm upset that that merely exists as a foundation in the floor now.

[@canoefor-one1102]

One of my great grandfathers went to the fair and bought a very ugly, though well intended, gift for his wife. It was a green velvet hat pin cushion mounted on a cow's hoof.

[@willhouse]

*Tesla's Egg!* Nikola Tesla had a twirling egg on display there, too... Just a big, gleaming-metal egg atop a pedestal that spun without any outside intervention. If I recall correctly, its design was how he proved that alternating polyphase current could be used as a motor despite naysayers declaring that only direct current's more basic flow was suitable for such a task.

[@stevenc6705]

Daniel Burnham and his architects built the massive buildings in like a year. Plus the landscaping. In 1893. With limited technology. No or very little electricity. Wow

[@LadyGreensleeves33]

I cannot actually think about the World's Fair without thinking about H.H. Holmes, but that's because I learned about it through Devil In the White City 😅

[@jon85753]

@7:20 completly agree. Anyone who knows anything about the Midwest knows that title belongs to Gary.

[@themotherbrassica]

that "cider" sounds a lot like switchel honestly. were any comparisons made at the time?

[@toosheaproductions]

when I was at the driehaus museum I asked if there was anything from the expo and lo they were there!

[@Jaspy_Jasp]

They lost 30 kids but only found 20?!?! WHAT?! What about those 10 other kids?!?

[@dboutier5636]

On the same night as the Chicago fire, which killed about 300 people and burned about 2000 acres, there was a fire in , Peshtigo, Wisconsin. It’s up in Door county , northern Wisconsin. It burned about 1.2 million acres and killed about 1500 people it ranged all the way into lower Michigan. it was mostly wilderness. It did not get the attention that Chicago fire got. Some people speculate that there might have been some sort of Astroid or meteorite that struck and caused the fires. Both cities are located on Lake Michigan.

[@bossfan49]

There is a street named Peshtigo Ct. in Streeterville. It's just west of LSD, and only runs 1 block between Grand and Illinois.

[@SonOfFurzehatt]

Beef tea is still modestly popular in the UK to this day. I don't think anyone considers it medicine any more.

[@quinlynnschultz6954]

I would really like to hear your opinions of the World's Fair depicted in the second season of Loki. They even had plot points take place in and around the Ferris wheel. Also, a comical look at the Norway exibit, minus the viking ship.

[@cooldad9793]

pls pls pls do more world's fair videos I would love to see one on Buffalo NY

[@eagz3394]

The tale of Catherine O’Leary's cow has been disproved and most historians now believe it was a case of discriminatory scapegoating. Side note: Chicago got the nickname 'Second City' after the Chicago Fire since the rebuilt city was locally called our 'second city'.

[@420greatestqueen]

I wonder what happened to those 10 children who weren’t restored to their parents

[@lordkek5817]

Real video starts here. 13:31 and it restarts after the orange cider tangent here 25:07

[@southcookexplore3809]

“Some awful orange drink New Yorkers hated” Oh, you convinced them to take a shot of Malort?

[@ovechkin100]

Its really funny to me how people are convinced the structures at the worlds fair were built in our current understanding of timelines.

[@dtvivo]

Wanna talk about the billion dollar(at the time) buildings built only for the few days the fair was held. Then torn down right after.

[@alisonnyanyannya]

Is this how I learn that middling is an old word and not something that came from the whole "mid" meme trend